The contrasting visions of Project 2025 and Our 2025 highlight the different paths America could take in the coming years. While Project 2025 threatens to reverse progress and make disparities worse, Our 2025 offers a vision of fairness, justice, and opportunity for all.

Data driven decision making has got to be the most used phrase in education today. I recall hearing it used in nearly all of my staff development sessions as well as being the first thing we learned in my educational leadership program.

Two years ago I was bored, so I created a TikTok account. I had no intention to seriously do anything with it other than watch other people’s videos and be entertained — simply relieve my boredom. I didn’t write a real bio listing my profession or passions, yet the one I wrote proved to be quite prophetic. “Trying to create an abundant, prosperous, joy-filled life from scratch.” Those exact words are what I’m trying to accomplish.

Currently, I’m an amicably divorced 55-year-old unemployed Engli

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I’ve dreamed and often fantasized about being a writer for more than half of my 55 years. Life-threatening uterine cancer pushed me to pursue writing seriously because falling back on my previous profession, a high school English teacher, to support myself is no longer an option. I believe that sometimes God puts us in situations where we don’t have a